There’s quite a lot wrong with Broadchurch (ITV, Mondays 9pm), the whodunnit set in a village of the damned on the English coast. It’s a village of the guilty, actually – for every character acts guiltily even when they’re alone and even when they’re innocent. Even the victim behaves as if she’s up to no good.
This season she is Trish, a 49-year-old victim of a violent sexual assault. The columnist Peter Hitchens has written furiously about the drama’s depiction of a subjective police force: they instantly believe her and treat anyone who refuses to help their inquiries as a likely culprit.
